Inside a one-quarter overhead audit that pulled a five-person data team back from 67% firefighting.
Most data teams plan for 40% new-build capacity and end the sprint with 33%.
It's overhead nobody measures or budgets for.
Until the audit makes it concrete, the team keeps paying rent.
The CTO logged four weeks of time across eight categories and built the baseline.
Three changes, observability, catalog, and structured intake, replaced the three biggest sources of drag.
The Result: 67% overhead dropped to 27%, and Q2 shipped seven of five planned products.
Teams that run the audit ship more, hire less, and lose fewer engineers.
Each quarter without the fix costs another quarter of product.
Logiciel's Overhead Audit runs the diagnostic, picks the three levers, and delivers the sprint plan in days.
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Four weeks of category tracking exposes the real mix.
Observability, catalog, and intake fix the highest-cost overhead categories.
A quarter is short enough to commit, long enough to prove.
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